Sunday, October 3, 2010

Here's a common bit of health advice for you NOT to follow:"Read the ingredients."

If a product has a list of ingredients, there are a couple of things you can be sure of:1. It's processed. (Even if it's labled "natural" or even "organic.")2. There are some ingredients in it that you'd rather not eat.

Here are some examples of foods that most people would consider healthy. Note the prevalence of corn and soy. Since these foods are not labled as organic, chances are that the corn and soy in them are genetically modified.

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Sunday, September 12, 2010

I love this time of year. One of my favorite activities is cutting firewood for the approaching winter. There's nothing more comfortable on a blustery winter day than a warm, cozy fire in the wood stove. As I was cutting wood the other day, it occurred to me that the process of transforming big logs into firewood mirrors our health. It happens one seemingly insignificant step at a time. This is true for a positive path or a negative one in your health.

Take a look at the photo below.

The first blow with the maul barely made a dent in the wood. It seemed insignificant. But it was a start...

After about 20 more blows, this happened:

Usually, a noticeable crack appears across the diameter of the log and then, after a couple more strikes, the log splits. That's what I expected and I had planned to take a picture of the first big crack. But that didn't happen this time. I was pounding away, making seemingly insignificantly dents and then all of a sudden, with one strike, I had a complete split. It seemed instantaneous. But, of course, there was a lot leading up to that instantaneous split.

You can now purchase or order Oby's Wisdom! A Caveman's Simple Gude to Health and Well-being at your favorite local bookstore. Here in the Inland Northwest, Oby is on the shelves at these locations:Spokane: Auntie's Bookstore, downtownCoeur d'Alene: Hastings and BordersSandpoint: Inquire Within, Winter Ridge Natural Foods Market, Zero Point and Vanderford's Books & Office Products

You can also visit the official Oby's Wisdom website to purchase a copy. www.ObysWisdom.com

Read reviews (all of which are 5 star) and buy Oby's Wisdom on Amazon.

Buy Oby's Wisdom at the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association's Amazon Book Store.

Coming any day now(I hope) to Amazon's Kindle store.(If you have a Kindle reader of have the Kindle program on your computer or samrt phone, you can buy the Kindle version of Oby's Wisdom at Smashwords.com

Sunday, August 15, 2010

One hundred years ago this week, the great fire of 1910 roared through North Idaho, Western Montana and Eastern Washington, scorching over 5 million acres of lush forest. During one 36 hour period on August 20 - 21 a firestorm now known as The Big Blowup burned 3 million acres of National Forest. At least 85 people, mostly firefighters, died in the blaze and 8 billion board feet of timber were destroyed. Evidence of the fire is still visible today. But to see it, you have to look pretty close. Although the fire damage was total in many locations, the forest immediately began to come back to life. For many years now, the forests of the Inland Northwest have thrived.

The photo at the top is the forest today, north of Sandpoint, Idaho. That's the Pack River.

Below is a photo of a huge tree that was burned but survived the fire. Several years ago, it died and toppled over. Burn marks are still visible. And the "dead" tree has become a home for new life.

Below are a couple photos of stumps of old cedar trees near the Pack River that probably died in the fire. Note how new growth has taken root inside of the stumps.

The next photo is of a gigantic ponderosa pine on Canfield Mountain near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It is known to local hikers and horseback riders as The Big Tree. I'm pretty sure that this tree is well over 100 years old. What you can't see in this picture is that the top of the tree looks dead. Bare wood. Below it, a long expanse of massive living, green branches. Although it seems evident that The Big Tree was severly damaged in the fire, it continues to thrive today.

This week's highlight: Tune in this Friday, August 20, 10 AM Pacific time to hear me interiewed on The Hollis Chapman Show on Blog Talk Radio.

You can now purchase or order Oby's Wisdom! A Caveman's Simple Gude to Health and Well-being at your favorite local bookstore. Here in the Inland Northwest, Oby is on the shelves at these locations:Spokane: Auntie's Bookstore, downtownCoeur d'Alene: Hastings and BordersSandpoint: Inquire Within, Winter Ridge Natural Foods Market, Zero Point and Vanderford's Books & Office Products

You can also visit the official Oby's Wisdom website to purchase a copy. www.ObysWisdom.com

Read reviews (all of which are 5 star) and buy Oby's Wisdom on Amazon.

Buy Oby's Wisdom at the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association's Amazon Book Store.

Coming any day now(I hope) to Amazon's Kindle store.(If you have a Kindle reader of have the Kindle program on your computer or samrt phone, you can buy the Kindle version of Oby's Wisdom at Smashwords.com

You can now purchase or order Oby's Wisdom! A Caveman's Simple Gude to Health and Well-being at your favorite local bookstore. Here in the Inland Northwest, Oby is on the shelves at these locations:Spokane: Auntie's Bookstore, downtownCoeur d'Alene: Hastings and BordersSandpoint: Inquire Within, Winter Ridge Natural Foods Market, Zero Point and Vanderford's Books & Office Products

You can also visit the official Oby's Wisdom website to purchase a copy. www.ObysWisdom.com

Read reviews (all of which are 5 star) and buy Oby's Wisdom on Amazon.

Buy Oby's Wisdom at the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association's Amazon Book Store.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

In last week’s post, I discussed how fighting is the predominant approach to health and healthcare in today’s society. The example I used was a headline I recently read: “Use Yoga to Combat Stress.”

"Chemicals and Blades..."Whenever we have a “problem” with our health what do we do? We attack the invader with chemicals. We have chemicals that are supposed to kill invaders and we have other chemicals that claim to promote health. Many of these chemicals are “natural.” If the chemicals don’t do a good enough job, we resort to blades. All too often, the chemicals and blades don’t work anyway. For many people, during the whole process, little to no thought is given to enhancing the vibrant inherent health that shines within all of us. Enhancing health, as our first course of action, always serves us the best. Sometimes chemicals and blades can be helpful, too, but should only be considered as an adjunct, with “facilitating life” as our foundational approach to health.

Is it any surprise, then, that that is how we treat the world around us? The way that most of our food is grown is by using blades to remove the surrounding Nature (including rain forests) and then planting vast monoculture tracts of one crop (which is far too often hybridized or genetically modified), and then using plenty of chemicals to kill “pests” and “weeds” and more chemicals to stimulate growth. The result: A poisoned water supply, a food supply that is making us sick rather than nourishing us, and a planet that—unless we make a big shift—will no longer be able to sustain us.

Is it any surprise that when there are disagreements between people, we resort to chemicals and blades (and bullets and bombs…) to “solve” the problem. Even when we don’t actually engage in armed combat, a fight mentality exists…Fighting injustice…Fighting for your rights…

I was once at an event where we listened to a great presentation on Human Rights. During the discussion afterwards, one of the audience members, himself a highly respected human rights activist, declared, “We must fight hate!”

You can now purchase or order Oby's Wisdom! A Caveman's Simple Gude to Health and Well-being at your favorite local bookstore. Here in the Inland Northwest, Oby is on the shelves at these locations:Spokane: Auntie's Bookstore, downtownCoeur d'Alene: Hastings and BordersSandpoint: Inquire Within, Winter Ridge Natural Foods Market, Zero Point and Vanderford's Books & Office Products

You can also visit the official Oby's Wisdom website to purchase a copy. www.ObysWisdom.com

Read reviews (all of which are 5 star) and buy Oby's Wisdom on Amazon.

Buy Oby's Wisdom at the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association's Amazon Book Store.

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I am a Chiropractor, energy healer, writer and speaker with an important message for you:
Turn your health inside out!
Another way of saying that is that you are inherently healthy. This is the most important thing to understand, and act on if you want to optimize your health and life.
Within you, you already possess the capacity for perfect health. The same holds true not only for individuals, but our society as a whole. Vibrant health is not something you create; it's something you reveal!
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